CRAFT REMEDIATION (2018-19)

CRAFT REMEDIATION

(2018-19)

Keywords: remediation, care,

empathy, postindustrial

Craft Remediation, is a site-specific and hands-on permaculture approach for phytoremediation. It aims to discuss how the praxis of care and empathic approach to materials and resources can be activated on a local scale. The idea of caring and harvesting are explored not only in a human encounter, but materialised and extended in dialogue with nonhumans, particularly plants acquired from the neighbourhood of Aspudden, and technology used to measure the photosynthetic efficiency in plants.

The investigation started at Vinterviken in Aspudden, a postindustrial site where Alfred Nobel invented an enormous revolution for armaments and mining explosives manufacturing: dynamite. The side effect of the industrial activities in Vinterviken that started in the 1860's have led to soil contamination in the area. In response to this specific local history, the artistic research explores, among other ideas, harvesting as a method for extracting pollutants from contaminated soil.

CRAFT REMEDIATION

(2018-19)

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